What Good Is a Castle?
after Joe Bataan In the mirror, I'm no longer there, [...]
Swimming
When I was eighteen, I got a job as the [...]
Star Quilt, and Starfish Sent from a Distant Place, Balanced Against Window Glass
Thin as a needle, my need, like my work, piercing [...]
Driftwood
Castries, St. Lucia For Derek Walcott on his 85th birthday [...]
An Organ of Extreme Perfection
We'll never know where every part is from, Though it [...]
Thinking of Lucille Clifton’s ‘If I Stand in My Window’ at the Convent
— St. Marguerite's Retreat House, December 10, 2011 Who wouldn't [...]
Kik-Kik, Pak-Pak
The back porch is where her father used to sit [...]
The Color of Nostalgia
A boy I once knew said my childhood reminded him [...]
A War Across the River
In 2011, as a political crisis in Ivory Coast threatened [...]
In the Camp of Nomadic Affinities
The nomads arrive on camels. They speak in whimpers and [...]